Selected features of the desmostylian skeleton and their phylogenetic implications

Title Variants

Alternative: Desmostylian skeleton

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2870

By

Novacek, Michael J.

Wyss, André R.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1987

Notes

Title from caption.

"April 6, 1987."

"According to several standard descriptions, desmostylians lack certain specializations shared by proboscideans, sirenians, and hyracoids. These specializations are amastoidy and the serial arrangement of the carpals with the concomitant loss of contact between the lunar and unciform. We argue that original descriptions of desmostylians pertaining to these traits are either in error, or have alternative phylogenetic implications. Hence, comparisons of these conditions do not exclude desmostylians from the superordinal group Tethytheria (proboscideans and sirenians) or the more inclusive Paenungulata (tethytheres and hyracoids)"--P. [1].

Subjects

Desmostylia , Mammals , Mammals, Fossil , Phylogeny , Skeleton

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2870, 1987

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 15724149